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Can you elaborate as to why and how? Im genuinely curious. :)

• stale2002 10y ago
  An engineer is a person who creates real world solutions to real world problems. What matters is not how elegant your solution is, what matters is solving the problem. And doing it under cost and time constraints. An engineer is first and foremost, a person focussed on the end goal, above all else.
  • pryelluw 10y ago
    Do data scientists do as engineers?
  • throw_away_777 10y ago
    This definition of engineer is so broad as to be meaningless. There is no "fake world" with "fake world" problems, pretty much everyone is trying to create real world solutions to real world problems. Similarly most jobs are focused on the end goal. A data scientist job usually involves a mix of science and engineering.
    • stale2002 10y ago
      My definition of "real world" problems are ones that people are willing to pay for. If nobody is willing to give you money for whatever it is that you are doing, then it probably isn't solving someone's actual problem.
      • throw_away_777 10y ago
        The problem with this approach is that people pay much more money for limited gains they can exploit than for general gains that benefit everyone equally. Advancing academic knowledge provides gains distributed over a very large number of people, but the current system often does not efficiently allocate resources to this problem.
    • nickdavidhaynes 10y ago
      >There is no "fake world" with "fake world" problems You've never met a number theorist.
      • throwaway729 10y ago
        > You've never met a number theorist. And you've never met a cryptographer ;-)